Hi WAN!

I wanted to let you all know about a book I’ve just had published through Parlor Press in the US, as part of their Series on Electracy and Transmedia Studies. 

Tracing Invisible Lines is a critical autoethnographic text built around Gregory Ulmer’s concept of the “Mystory.” Dedicated to the enhancement of imagination and innovation in a digital-media saturated society, Ulmer’s Mystory is a creative research method that draws narratives from three domains of discourse (personal, professional, popular). Analyzing these domains means generating fresh insight into the deep-seated emblems that drive the creative disposition, or “invariant principle,” of the practice-led researcher. Here, the mystoriographical approach has mobilized an exploration of the interrelations between self and society, between memory and imagination, as well as between industry-driven design-arts education and experimental sound-art practice (prioritizing the sonic, the perambulatory, careering). As a result, the Mystory fosters critical awareness of the socio-cultural instruments of creative inspiration and perspiration.

Given the book's attention to walking, listening and recording, and improvisational sound-based art, I thought that it might be of interest to a number of the people on this list. For those of you who are interested, here's a link to the Parlor Press site:

http://www.parlorpress.com/tracing_invisible_lines

Best wishes,

David

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